Posts by Igor

Original Post by penguin623:

Original Post by nmward:

Original Post by bouncingbamboo:

hi - once you've signed up for calorie count camp, when you click on 'mark day complete' button at the end of your day, a dialogue box should open that asks if you would like to comment on your day (optional) with a space to write text and below that another button to mark day complete.  this is where you add your comments about your day.  hope that helps.

edit: meant to write 'once you sign up for calorie camp'. sorry if that caused any confusion.

Calorie camp just showed up on my profile and I didn't sign up for anything. Is it no longer an option to sign up for and everyone just has it now? I think it is a great tool for those who want to use it, but I am not sure I want everyone to see what I eat every day.

^^This! I can't figure out how to edit my settings. I want no part of this! I don't want people to see my stuff because I don't always log accurately and it will look incomplete. Please tell me how to fix it!

You're only seeing the logs that people choose to share during the "mark my day complete" process. You can avoid sharing by setting your sharing to private or by clicking the text link in that dialog. See here for more details on these two privacy options.

Original Post by meleania:

Original Post by Igor:

Hey Campers,

I have a favor to ask: let us please do something that may not sound like a good idea at first, but might help us build a better product in the long term. Specifically, we're trying to address the amount of likes and comments that each report is getting. While we're reasonably happy with the engagement so far, conventional wisdom in our industry is to implement Facebook-powered comments to further increase the engagement. In other words, if this experiment were to work out, every report could end up getting more encouraging feedback.

Let me point out that this is different from Facebook Connect. We're not asking the original report poster to connect their CC account with Facebook and share the report with their Facebook friends -- we're asking that the report poster allows comment posters to share the report and comments with comment posters' friends.

Clear like mud? Here it is in simple terms: the report you're posting publicly is currently only available to people with a Calorie Count account. We're asking for this limitation to be lifted and that each report becomes visible to anyone, inside and outside of Calorie Count. There's a chance that someone you know might come across that account, but given the size of Facebook, it's not any more likely than if you were to write a public blog post but not tell any of your friends about it.

I'll be honest: we're not sure if this is a good idea or not. But the same was true with the Calorie Camp idea in the first place - we didn't know if people were interested in sharing their food logs with strangers. I think we can all reasonably agree that this first stage of Calorie Camp was a success - it really warms my heart to see when people get encouraging feedback and our stats show that people are coming back more often and logging more accurately. Let's try this stage 2 and see what life brings. If we get privacy problems, or lower-quality feedback from the Facebook community, or any other unforeseen negative side effect, I promise to replace the Facebook comments with our native system. But let's give this a shot - please support us in this adventure for a couple of days and let's keep our eyes on it!

Thanks so much for helping us test new things and find out what works!

I wouldn't mind that. Im sure most people wouldnt either if there was a way to turn it off or have it being off the default option. I think there should also be an option to share my completed day on facebook too and have those comments show up on my caloriecamp

Oh great - we're turning it back on!

(relax everyone, just kidding)

I think the lesson learnt from the forum posts, pm's and emails we received was that some people like being able to link their CC and Facebook identities, but it's definitely a minority. That's why we pulled it again and will instead make it available later down the road as an opt-in and 100% optional feature.

Original Post by andesite:

Original Post by roxysparkles:

Original Post by andesite:

One of the best things about Calorie Camp IS the fact that other people see your report(s).

I understand that, but I've been on CC for years now, and have a lot of friends who are not active on a daily basis and I think it would be very annoying for them to get daily emails from me.  I think that the camp sounds awesome, but I'll wait to join until there is a way for me to participate without bugging my old CC friends with unnecessary daily emails. 

They can turn off the notifications to receive your daily reports... all they have to do is go into the first email they get, and click the link to not be notified anymore.

Maybe I don't understand how Calorie Camp works.  Is the daily email the only way that your friends can see what you were up to?  Or can they also see that on the dashboard?  

Yes, the dashboard is the meat of the product (no pun...). Join the camp and check it out - it won't send out any reports to your friends if you select the private option on the mark-day-complete checkbox (you'll see when you join). 

Thanks everyone for giving this experiment a shot - it's clear at this point that it's not working and we're in the process of reverting back to the native commenting system.

Also a few more details about the next steps: on Monday we'll invite a second wave of testers, so you should start seeing a lot more activity by mid week. If all goes well (servers don't melt, etc), we'll make the public launch the week after.

As always, feel free to offer suggestions on our Uservoice page, or just leave them here. And once again, thanks for all of your time and energy in helping us get this puppy out of the door!

Original Post by raynsong:

if we like someone's day now it posts to our facebook?!

not ok.

You posted while i was typing... I was hoping to announce before you guys had to find out the hard way. Sorry!

Original Post by roxysparkles:

Sorry if this was mentioned already, but how come on some people's reports you can see "net calories" in the dashboard, but not on others?

To avoid triggering of eating disorders, we only show net calories that are in the range of -500 to +1000.

Original Post by Igor:

Original Post by roxysparkles:

One thing I noticed that I personally don't like - is with the new layout, you can't see the total cals people ate - only see the rating (A, A+, etc).

For technical reasons, we had to enable the net calories only for reports submitted after this release. Have a look at the reports later today or tomorrow and tell us what you think.

Hmm... we just decided to hold off on the net calories and instead you'll continue seeing total calories. We'll have to put some more work into the net calories.

We just released a bunch of changes:

• You can now view your previous weeks
• The toolbar is removed
• Comments can be posted and goals can be viewed on the Dashboard
• You can see who liked your and other people's reports
• Goals can be changed at any time
• The up/down votes on comments are replaced with likes
• Total calories on the Dashboard are replaced with net calories (which will be calculated starting with today's submitted reports)
• Unified comments/questions/tips into comments on the mark day complete overlay

Let us know how you like the changes. We're getting close to the public launch, which should be sometime in December. Yay!

Original Post by coach_k:

Just as an FYI -- I am unable to call, but I did send you rather extensive feedback via PM

received it and studied all points with the rest of the team. killer feedback! we'll do our best to correct as many of those issues as possible before the launch.

As we're nearing the public launch (and given many interesting points of feedback that we've received in the last couple of days), I'd like to invite anyone interested to get on a call with me and Hal and discuss in detail the highs and lows of the current execution. We want to make sure that we have a 100% understanding of all challenges that you've encountered, and of all of the edge cases that we hadn't thought of. I'd like to make this happen as soon as possible, ideally tomorrow Nov 9th.

We'll only be able to talk to a limited number of people, so first come first serve. If we don't get enough info by end of day tomorrow, I'll post and update and will let you know if we're extending the period. To get on a call with us, just send me a private message with your availability and phone number. Looking forward to connecting!